tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152735487772301613.post4359279655941388663..comments2017-01-17T06:47:33.080-05:00Comments on A Crone Speaks Out: TERF Wars and Trans-terrorism Rev. Cathryn Platinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02858403773715566065noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152735487772301613.post-33920038744898736642016-08-25T23:51:42.541-04:002016-08-25T23:51:42.541-04:00I found this enlightening.
I have heard the accou...I found this enlightening. <br />I have heard the account in person. <br />I was there at the class she held. <br />I saw this unfold before my eyes. <br /><br />I was glad to share a gathering of pagans for the class. <br />I know I missed part of the full on experience, due to settling some important issues with another involved. Glad to know that went well. However I found the class lacking in any real content. I took nothing away from it, except a thinner wallet. I was not pleased with her pointing out people, practically by name to use as examples of disruption in groups. One being my own leader at the time. Right or wrong in the assessment, I found that her &quot;teaching&quot; was nothing more that recalling how she and others did not work out due to personality conflicts. <br /><br />And since she was the leader, the other was always to blame.<br /> <br />Something odd about that last sentence. <br />Since the other issue you brought up in this blog was about another not feeling as if ONLY the leaders decide who stays and who goes. And yet THEY are still friends, in lieu of your lost bonds.<br />I feel your lost even through the ruggedness of you. <br />Well Simply put, I feel Shauna Knight is a fraud. <br />A bigoted woman who wouldn&#39;t know a real issue from the glitter she spews in public. <br />I don&#39;t really care whose friendship I may lose due to this. <br />I am true to all I care for. And I am no more persuaded by a best friend than a thug with a gun. Shoot and get it over with. The negative energies wrought that day and night were the first and only time I felt uncomfortable in the Maetreum. <br />Even with my failure to complete the last rituals I attended due to my physical ailment, I never felt so at unease. <br />The Maetreum carries such positive energies and hope in a simple homage to a lifetime project. The town&#39;s attack that night were more than likely drawn by such blacken ooze that stayed there and spewed utter uselessness. <br />And as far as accusing Viktoria of being co-dependent?<br />HA<br />Your Battakes-In-Waiting is no more dependent on another than I am a a quiet skinny Buddhist. I have always found the relationship between you and Viktoria as a complimentary opposition. Viktoria does not need to shred another apart to seek answers. She waits. Where as another may shake the tree till something falls down (ahem). <br />And Viktoria, don&#39;t worry about relationships with others in the decay of Albany district worry you. <br />The Outstanding folks here who are your friends, will be so with or without a blog. <br />I too find the gatherings up here less and less authentic to spirit and heart. If you lose anything, it was meant to be so. Blessed Beats to your Spiral Danze. <br />James Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01342243278613841469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152735487772301613.post-11040601163942940922016-08-08T11:34:22.367-04:002016-08-08T11:34:22.367-04:00Dear Cathryn;
I advised you against publishing th...Dear Cathryn;<br /><br />I advised you against publishing this blog for reasons that should be obvious. However, I know full well from my own experience that what is advisable is not always what is right or what is needed for healing.<br /><br />As a person on the spectrum, it&#39;s always been my inclination to be bluntly honest. Family and society, however, do not share that inclination. Our culture is focused on the appearances rather than the truth (the pagan community is no different). Indeed, I&#39;ve often wondered if that is the central psychological conflict that autistics face in our culture: to put up a socially acceptable front or be true to ourselves and face potentially dire consequences. Dealing with this conflict on a day-to-day basis can literally drive you crazy! I&#39;m sure that everyone deals with this conflict in one way or another, but for us spectrum folks (particularly those of my generation and older who didn&#39;t find out until we were well into adulthood) it&#39;s very much a thing. Add in the autistic lack of understanding social cues as well as enhanced autistic empathy and you&#39;ve got a real mess on your hands. It works like this: you interact with someone and they are relatively polite and friendly on the surface, but you are all too painfully aware of what they are feeling underneath, especially if they have hostility towards you in any way. If those things are in conflict, you know it! At best it&#39;s confusing. At worst it&#39;s utterly terrifying. <br /><br />Given what these two did, it&#39;s been profoundly uncomfortable for me to be involved with Albany area pagans. Save for a few whom I&#39;ve been friends with for years, I never know who has been told what and what they are thinking about me. As a result of all of this, I no longer share my talents with them. Much as I hate to sound egotistical, yes, that is a loss to them. <br /><br />Also, another negative effect of all this is that because of this nonsense about us being supposedly transphobic, there are transwomen out there who could have benefited from our help who have not gotten it. I really do consider that a tragedy.<br /><br />I truly hope that as a result of this: 1. That Shauna Knight rethinks her priorities and approaches others with more compassion and honesty. And apologizes to us publicly. Yeah, that&#39;d be nice. 2. That Lauren and her partners get the help that they need 3. That you, Cathryn, are able to finally heal from all of this and 4. That our friends in Albany understand why this is so important to us.<br /><br />Moreoever, I truly hope that everyone involved in this learns how important honesty is as a result. I also hope that they learn that women&#39;s anger does not equal mental illness and that it is deeply, deeply misogynistic to make that assumption.<br /><br />“A good anger acted upon is beautiful as lightning and swift with power. A good anger swallowed – a good anger swallowed clots the blood to slime.” — Marge PiercyViktoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818718918319300411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152735487772301613.post-53624634660087221752016-08-07T18:03:19.055-04:002016-08-07T18:03:19.055-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.rennie wytchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16594973172781264293noreply@blogger.com